Pastor, teacher, and author Adrian Rogers has introduced people all over the world to the love of Jesus Christ,

and has impacted untold numbers of lives by presenting profound truth, simply stated.

Thanks for joining us for this message. Here's Adrian Rogers.

Would you take your Bibles and turn to the Gospel according to Luke chapter 1?

I want to talk to you today about prayer, and I want to talk to you on this subject when prayer seems unanswered.

Now that's a problem to many of us. We hear that we're to pray, and indeed we should, but so many times we pray, and our prayer seems unanswered.

Look, if you will, in Luke chapter one, beginning in verse 5, there was in the days of Herod, the king of Judea, a certain priest named

Zacharias of the course of Aebaea, and his wife was of the daughters of Aaron, and her name

was Elizabeth. And they were both righteous before God, walking in all of the commandments and

ordinance of the Lord, blameless. And they had no child because that Elizabeth was barren.

And they were both now well stricken in years.

And it came to pass while he executed the priest office before God

in the order of his course.

According to the custom of the priest's office,

his lot was, that is,

Zacharias's duty was to burn incense when he went into the temple of the Lord. And the whole

multitude of the people were praying without, that is, they were standing outside and they were

praying at the time of incense. And there appeared unto him an angel of the Lord standing on the right side of the

altar of incense. And when Zacharias saw him, he was troubled, and fear fell upon him. And the angel

said unto him, and here's the key verse, fear not Zacharias, for thy prayer is heard.

And thy wife, Elizabeth, shall bear thee a son,

and thou shalt call his name John,

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